CHAPTER XLV At about the week’s end from his return to Mansfield, Tom’s immediate danger was over, and he was so far pronounced safe as to make his mother perfectly easy; for being now used to the sight of him in his suffering, helpless state, and hearing only the best, and never thinking beyond what she heard, with no disposition for alarm and no aptitude at a hint, Lady Bertram was the happiest subject in the world for a little medical imposition.

There are no more uses of "aptitude" in the book.

Show samples from other sources

Hyde’s study indicates that girls and boys have the same aptitude for math.